Scratch

I installed scratch_1.3.1-0.6_i386.deb in Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10.
It works so far, but I have no sound. How can I resolve this?
Is there an option that I could pass in Gnome shortcut so as to load with my preferred language and not having to change it everytime?

I have a prehistoric Scratch in my laptop Linux 

I am hugely interested in a working scratch on Ubuntu.  I'm a high school teacher in Arlington Virginia.  I'm currently exploring Scratch with several of my students, and we will be offering Scratch classes as Summer enrichment to 4th to 6th graders.

I will need to run it on Ubuntu systems, and am hopeful that such things as sound and image morphing are working by Summer.

jelkner wrote:

I am hugely interested in a working scratch on Ubuntu.  I'm a high school teacher in Arlington Virginia.  I'm currently exploring Scratch with several of my students, and we will be offering Scratch classes as Summer enrichment to 4th to 6th graders.

I will need to run it on Ubuntu systems, and am hopeful that such things as sound and image morphing are working by Summer.

Welcome jelkner!

The scratch team recently released a (relatively) new testing package for Ubuntu 8.10 - available here:

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Linux_installer

The latest package should resolve the image morphing issues.  Sound is a bit trickier.  Note that sound playback and sound recording work when Scratch is installed on Ubuntu 7.10 and Fedora. On Ubuntu 8.10 Scratch sound playback / recording does not work with the default ALSA sound system. Playback should work if you force the use of the OSS plugin by starting Scratch this way:

/usr/share/scratch/App/squeak -plugins /usr/share/scratch/Plugins -vm-sound-OSS /usr/share/scratch/Scratch.image "${@}"

Recording still will not work, and neither will the midi and drum blocks.  This is just a temporary fix and we hope to have more of these issues worked out in the next release of the package.

Hi Inkstand -
You might take a look at and post questions on this thread about Scratch on the eeepc:
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/post.php?tid=21
Also, I don't know if you are interested, but I had an eeepc on which I installed easy peasy - a version of Ubuntu customized for netbooks.  This was a while ago so I never tried the Scratch installer, but I imagine it would probably work.
http://www.geteasypeasy.com/

Hope this helps!

Hey,

I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck in managing to get a copy of Scratch to run on a Linux PPC version? I tried the .deb installer but it of course gave the wrong architecture message when the package installer ran. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10  on an iBook G4, which has general problems doing anything normal like installing WINE or virtualisation environments or that sort of thing. Any advice that anyone has would be greatly appreciated, i'm not hugely experienced on Linux though.

Snowy

SnowyLasPinadas wrote:

Hey,

I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck in managing to get a copy of Scratch to run on a Linux PPC version? I tried the .deb installer but it of course gave the wrong architecture message when the package installer ran. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10  on an iBook G4, which has general problems doing anything normal like installing WINE or virtualisation environments or that sort of thing. Any advice that anyone has would be greatly appreciated, i'm not hugely experienced on Linux though.

Snowy

I think if you can get a Squeak virtual machine setup, then you should be able to load and hopefully run the Scratch image. Haven't heard of this being done before, but if you give it a go let us know what happens.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/powerpc/squeak-image3.9

There's more info about Scratch and Squeak here:
http://scratch.wik.is/Source_Code

recent squeak-vm, unicode and quitting squeak

running Scratch (linux-installer) on ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04

In order to get unicode working i had to replace the included squeak-vm by a recent squeak-3.10-vm. This way unicode works nicely, but the vm does not allow closing the Scratch-window with the x-icon nor with Alt-F4. This is a crucial problem since I'm running Scratch at school on linux-machines. This is a feature, not a bug, as I was told by squeak-developers - honestly i do appreciate this feature since it prevents data-loss by closing the window unintentionally.

Could you please(!) add a quit-button to the interface (as Etoys does have). Due to this I'm still using Scratch-1.2 at school since this doesn't bother about unicode, whence I can use an older squeak-vm.

Bokonon wrote:

SnowyLasPinadas wrote:

Hey,

I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck in managing to get a copy of Scratch to run on a Linux PPC version? I tried the .deb installer but it of course gave the wrong architecture message when the package installer ran. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10  on an iBook G4, which has general problems doing anything normal like installing WINE or virtualisation environments or that sort of thing. Any advice that anyone has would be greatly appreciated, i'm not hugely experienced on Linux though.

Snowy

I think if you can get a Squeak virtual machine setup, then you should be able to load and hopefully run the Scratch image. Haven't heard of this being done before, but if you give it a go let us know what happens.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/powerpc/squeak-image3.9

There's more info about Scratch and Squeak here:
http://scratch.wik.is/Source_Code

Thanks for the reply Bokonon!! I followed your advice and got a copy of the Squeak VM set up (which was easily done via Synaptic), I also loaded a Squeak UI that appeared on my programs list, which didn't get me very far, that could well be due to my lack of knowledge about how to use it though   

I followed some information on another forum post about downloading, unzipping and running a WinScratch.zip package (unzip, move to new directory and "./Scratch.image") and have a development environment load, initially with errors saying that a primitive has failed listing.... and doing this during a lot of things and not really running at all other than the UI. I followed some advice given further on the page:
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6207
And tried to do the converting rpm to .deb process with alien, however that got grouchy about the PPC architecture (which i should have expected)
I've tried downloading the latest source code and trying to initiate the image file from a terminal as such

snowy@snowy-laptop:~/scratch-1.3.1-0.9-3/scratch$ sudo ./Scratch.image
sudo: ./Scratch.image: command not found

as you can see that didn't go too well either. I don't know if it's meant to though, I really am new to Linux (although experienced on windows), I was trying what had got the UI to load with the WinScratch package that I downloaded. I tried the same with the package shown at the top of the page you linked me to about scratch and squeak too.

snowy@snowy-laptop:~/ScratchSource1.3.1$ sudo ./ScratchSourceCode1.3.1.image
sudo: ./ScratchSourceCode1.3.1.image: command not found

Am I actually starting it in the way suggested? Should I be opening from inside the squeak UI thing on my programs menu? If so could you point me to some instructions on how to do that? I'm out of ideas 

Thanks!!

Hi SnowyLasPinadas,
It's a tough problem...
Here's what I recommend as a start, but it probably won't work perfectly.  I did this on an i386 machine with Ubuntu 9.04. Hopefully it will translate!

Install squeak-vm with synaptic. (Should be in the repositories, more info at link below)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/powerpc/squeak-vm/1:3.9.8-3ubuntu3

Download and unpack the Scratch zip file here:
http://download.scratch.mit.edu/WinScratch1.3.1.zip

cd to the directory that has Scratch.image in it.

Type the following:
squeakvm -plugins /Scratch.app/Contents/Resources Scratch.image

This won't have sound, but might make a start.
If there are other problems, you may need a newer version of the Squeak Virtual machine than the one available in the ubuntu repositories.  You could try setting one up from here:
http://www.squeak.org/Download/

Good luck!

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tandrew wrote:

I have an Asus Eee 1000 running Linux.  I've been able to install Scratch using the perl installer, but have a couple of things I haven't been able to figure out.

1)  The Scratch environment window is too big for the screen.  I cannot figure out how to get it to resize - the mouse will not allow the sides to be dragged  and the full screen button gives the same size window as the resizeable one.

2)  I want to set this up on my daughters' machines, too, but would like to put an icon in the Learn tab on the desktop.  Any idea how to do this?  I tried an older version of Scratch that installed this automatically, but then didn't start the software when clicked, so I know it can be done but have yet to figure out how to do it.

Thanks for any and all help!

1) Scratch 1.4 Will work better on small screens.
2) I don't know how to solve that...